Traditional African religions and spiritual beliefs

This volume brings to the fore the interface of religion, women's sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Zimbabwe.

Although there is growing interest in the role of religion in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda 2030, very few studies have focused on the contributions of interfaith networks.

Pentecostalism is a growing movement in world Christianity.

This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of lobola in Southern Africa.

In this book, Munyaradzi Felix Murove explores African traditional ethical resources for African politics.

The wisdom of tribal peoples has often been overlooked, both within the church and outside of it.

The wisdom of tribal peoples has often been overlooked, both within the church and outside of it.

The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century.

The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century.

As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination.

The Bektashi dervish order is a Sufi Alevite sect found in Anatolia and the Balkans with a strong presence in Albania.

The Bektashi dervish order is a Sufi Alevite sect found in Anatolia and the Balkans with a strong presence in Albania.

What common features can be found in the native religions of the vast Eurasian landmass?

What common features can be found in the ancient customs and native religions of the vast Eurasian landmass?

Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists.

Explains how the Yezidis worship Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel, an enigmatic figure often identified as the devil or Satan, yet who has been redeemed by God to rule a world of beauty and spiritual realization Examines Yezidi antinomian doctrines of opposition, their cosmogony, their magical lore and taboos, the role of angels, ritual, and symbology, and how the Yezidi faith relates to other occult traditions such as alchemy Presents the first English translation of the poetry of Caliph Yazid ibn Muawiya, venerated by the Yezidis as Sultan Ezi The Yezidis are an ancient people who live in the mountainous regions on the borders of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

From first-hand experience, the author tells of daily life among the Hopi Indians in Northern Arizona--their beliefs, rituals and Catcina (Kachina) ceremonies.

A unique characteristic of Native American medicine is the belief that each patient holds a different spirit, and that the healing can only work when it affects the individual spirit.

As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination.

White settlers saw land for the taking.

Only Walk on Water When It Rains is a guide for mystical cosmic consciousness and questing for unity in the wilderness.

Arinze the only son of his father could not be ordained like his mates even after many years of struggles in the seminary; perhaps someone has sworn he will never be a priest.

Identity, soul-searching, and the never-ending journey of finding ourselves and finding GodAs both a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation and a Christian, Kaitlin Curtice offers a unique perspective on these topics.

This volume brings to the fore the intersections of religion, gender and sustainable development in 21st century Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book is written to create awareness and see if adequate interpretation would be given to certain phenomena and calamities created by the vagaries of nature and induced by spirits, Agwu inclusive, and suggest how they can be resolved.

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In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumi/Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine.

Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women-the Mothers-make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority.

Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term "e;fetishism"e; chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans.

This manuscript of the Mythology of the Yoruba Religion-Cariocha, as the importance of this cult, the past is the present, as the present to meet the future, thus regulate their functions in religious rituals.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDSYor b Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting'Run, j y , run!

The hotly anticipated epic and phenomenal West-African inspired finale to the New York Times bestselling YA fantasy Raybearer.

Taking the lead from John F.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it is used the right way.

While in medical school (which I did not have the privilege of completing), once a week we had a small group discussion class called Focus On Problems.

As the second installment of the Jazzrah Chronicles, Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruit Jazzrah, Jazzrah discovers that his life was spared after risking it to save Cassandra Lewis the last soul that he was sent to collect for the demonic Bial.

In the Caribbean heat and the American deep South, the dead are restless.

Engulfed in the darkness of Irian Jaya's Snow Mountains live the Yali, naked cannibals who call themselves lords of the earth.

Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India.

Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India.

Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society.

This volume contains insightful essays on significant spiritual moments in eight different Native American cultures: Absaroke/Crow, Creek/Muskogee, Lakota, Mescalero Apache Navajo, Tlingit, Yup'ik, and Yurok.

This volume contains insightful essays on significant spiritual moments in eight different Native American cultures: Absaroke/Crow, Creek/Muskogee, Lakota, Mescalero Apache Navajo, Tlingit, Yup'ik, and Yurok.

Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society.

Make a pilgrimage into your soul.

Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion.

Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion.

Religion has played a major role in both the division and unification of peoples and countries within Africa.

Religion has played a major role in both the division and unification of peoples and countries within Africa.